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heinous, reckless, and inhumane. im microal smerconish of philadelphia. those are the comments made. now that the rest of us have seen it, nobody can dispute that characterization. tyre nichols died from those injuries three days later, but was it second-degree murder as state law defines it? lets go to the video. i, of course, warn you the clips are difficult, theyre disturbing to watch, theres a lot of foul language. first we saw an officer arriving at the scene and the situation rap...

It was murder plain and simple says michael. manslaughter is conventionally what you would see charged in a case like this. of course, at the end the baton blows, the kicks to the head, god awful. i like my colleague elie honigs work. it was an aggressive charge. we will see whether they can prove it or there is some other outcome in the case. what else came in? limited on time today, so i have to hustle. what child after watching these police brutality videos would want to zbroe up to be a good...

Their actions would result in the dealt of mr. nichols. now, this is a really important point, michael. i want to make sure people understand this. the jury in this case will not return a verdict. they will return 35 verdicts because we have five defendants here charged with seven accounts each. the second-degree murder being the top count. theyre going to have to the defendant by defendant, asays their acts, and were these acts knowingly aimed at and done withable certainty they would result in...

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p.d. officers. for the first time since the beating, he went back to the scene to relive that hellish night. here now is that interview in the cnn documentary "race and rage," the beating of rodney king. >> what do you think when you see it? >> stay alive. i knew that i had to survive this. like that, with my hands up. no threat. >> this was a lynching on video. >> we, the jury, in the above entitled action find the defendant -- >> i think the verdicts lit a match. the tinder was alrea...

>> are you able to forgive those cops? have you let those demons go? did you hang onto the money or did you throw it away? >> can we -- can we all get along? can we get along? >> march 3rd, 1991, 25-year-old rodney king is thrust from obscurity to a national symbol of police brutality. the brutal beating that took place here along foothill boulevard in los angeles, california, would reverberate across the country. a city in flames. entire neighborhoods burned to the ground. now, two ...

rodney king. >> what do you think when you see it? >> stay alive. i knew i had to -- no threat. >> this was a lynching on video. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant -- >> i think the verdicts lit a match. the tinder was already in place, very dry. >> are you able to forgive those cops? have you let those demons go? did you hang onto the money or did you throw it away? >> can we -- can we all get along? can we get along? >> march 3rd, 1991, 25-year-old rodney ...

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